Cloud Services

Quickly and easily tap computing, storage, software, development and network
resources on demand with cloud services. With available pay as you go service
models for some services, overall IT spend and service-commitment terms can be
reduced. Our cloud environment is continually scaled and capacity is managed
behind the scenes to help make sure that you have the resources you need.
Better manage business growth, seasonal spikes or unexpected surges of
business activity with our suite of enterprise grade cloud services:

Cloud is designed to support your business to provide
maximum uptime and flexibility based on the business requirement. We offer a
wide range of cloud based security services from our Tier IV data center to
support a client’s business under the matured framework of integrated
processes and IT governance. Cloud based Security Services also
provides many benefits for new enterprises to establish their business quickly
with agility, faster time to market and at an attractive commercial model.

We supports client’s business with a
pay-as-you-go model without any upfront capital investment, all delivered
locally from Secure Tier IV Data Center. The Enterprise Cloud
Security Services Portfolio comprises of the following services:

·Managed
Web Application Firewall Service

This service provides 24x7 Web Application
protections from Internet attacks and vulnerabilities. The WAF service
provides the ability to protect and accelerate web communications and business
applications, which in turn mitigates security risk and vulnerabilities.

·Managed
Reverse Proxy Service

The Managed Reverse Proxy Service securely isolates
servers from direct Internet access and provides the security level of
authentication and policy support to enforce user access control.

·Managed
Firewall Service

The MFS provides secured cloud services to the
hosted infrastructure by separating the un-trusted Network from a trusted
Network which includes the firewall system, monitoring and management. This
service assists to mitigate risk and achieve higher levels of security without
the cost or pain associated with self-certification;

·Managed
Intrusion Prevention and Detection Service

The MIPS and MIDS service provides the 24 x 7
monitoring, protection and the related management activities against high
severity alerts and malicious content signatures. This service is delivered
on a secured cloud model to detect/prevent security related incidents for
clients hosted within the Injazat tier IV data center.

·Managed
Internet Content Intrusion Service

MICS is a true concept of Cloud services that
provides checks on content received from the Internet to ensure it matches the
Internet usage and security Policy. MICS monitors the internet traffic
utilization and identifies anomalies, isolates faults and restores MICS
following a Service disruption.

·Managed
Denial of Service

This service provides the proactive 24 x 7
monitoring to detect anomalies in network traffic so that the deflection and
mitigating action can be taken before the attack impacts your critical
business.

·Managed
Mail Gateway Service

The Managed Mail Gateway Service automatically scans and then filters all
incoming and outgoing email on your Internet gateway for any malicious code,
spam mail, potential viruses or questionable content.

The cloud security services market will experience a slow but steady rise for
the next several years, meaning it’s a good time for solution providers to step
up their cloud security skills and take advantage, according to a recent report

This growth is slightly lower but still fairly consistent with market growth
from 2013 to 2014. In 2013, revenue in the market was at $6.3 billion, growing
13.5 percent in 2014 to 7.2 billion, according to the report. Projected revenue
for 2015 is $8.1 billion, while in 2018 the market should represent about $11
billion in revenue opportunity.

Cloud-based revenue comes from security services and solutions sold in
conjunction with broadband services, security for mobile devices/apps, Web and
application hosting services, and security solutions for enterprise
infrastructure that has migrated into the cloud, Wilson wrote in the report.
“These solutions are tightly coupled to a specific provider’s network or
infrastructure,” he wrote.

In calendar-year 2014, 30 percent of cloud-based security service revenue was
from managed firewall services; 46 percent from content security; 2 percent from
IDS/IPS; 8 percent from DDoS mitigation; and the rest (14 percent) from other
security services.

The driving forces behind the slow but steady rise in growth of cloud security
services demonstrate both the good and bad news of the current security climate
for cloud computing, according to the report.

On one hand, the growth shows that there also is an increase in volume, variety
and complexity of security threats of all types, from infrastructure-level
threats such as DDoS attacks to extremely targeted attacks using 5+ vectors and
adapting techniques based on protection detected, Wilson wrote.

Companies, too, have not been so forward-thinking in the design of their
security systems, which has resulted in what Wilson calls “security product
sprawl.” With security products from sometimes 10 or more vendors with no common
policy, management, or reporting system in place, companies are leaving
themselves vulnerable to threats and are in need of security services as they
adopt the cloud.

An increase in that very adoption is another factor driving growth in the cloud
security services market, Wilson wrote. As enterprise IT moves to the cloud, so
security will have to follow, regardless of whether companies are ready.

Other factors driving growth in the need for cloud security services include an
increased proliferation and distribution of a variety of mobile devices in the
workforce—with employees using as many as five devices to access corporate data
these days—and service provider investment in security services rollout to
create sticky, high-margin revenue going forward, according to the report.

Security product manufacturers also are in solution providers’ corners in their
quest to take advantage of the market, developing products specifically aimed at
helping providers deliver managed common platform enumeration (CPE) and cloud
services, Wilson said.

“The adoption of SDN (software defined networking) and NFV (network functions
virtualization) in particular are will really enable providers to build agile
cloud and CPE-based services, and help drive the growth we’ve forecast through
2019,” he wrote in the report.

cloud-based application delivery service that protects websites and increases
their performance, improving end user experiences and safeguarding web
applications and their data from attack. Incapsula includes a web application
firewall to thwart hacking attempts, DDoS mitigation to ensure attacks don’t
impact online business assets, a content delivery network to optimize and
accelerate web traffic, and a load balancer to maximize the potential of web
environments.

As more companies begin to explore the benefits of cloud computing, it was found
that this solution had the potential to:

Provide more flexibilityReduce IT management of hardware and
dataReduce management of web applications
through automated updatesProvide greater storage capacity

While the advantages of a cloud solution are evident, there are many who also
have been quick to point out the fact that there are plenty of security concerns
one faces when considering moving to the cloud.

Risks Associated with Cloud Computing

The debate as to how secure moving applications and data to the cloud is such an
area of concern that the topic consumed much of the discussion at the 2009 RSA
conference. These ongoing debates have sparked a number of security experts to
identify a number of threats to cloud computing to include;

The fact that someone else is in control of your data

Moving data to the cloud requires a great deal of trust in the host since they
are essentially housing all of your data. If they fail to put adequate security
controls in place between the client and data, a number of attacks can be used
to compromise sensitive information.SQL
Injection attacks, compromised servers, and session hijacking can all lead
to cyber criminals harvesting your data on someone else's watch.

Someone else is managing your applications

While this is also noted as one of the benefits to cloud computing, it can also
cause problems. As web applications grow in popularity, more companies rely on
them as an integral part of how they do business. Moving these applications to
the cloud should mean that the management of these apps is taken care of, but
this usually means automated updates, not complete security. In fact, George
Reese stated in his article,Twenty
Rules for Amazon Cloud Security-
"Above all else, write secure web applications."

The fact is, while your cloud provider may handle necessary updates of your
software, they are not going to review your code for potential vulnerabilities;
make sure your input and output is validated, escaped, and filtered; and that
your application is protected against other methods of exploiting common threats
like Cross-Site Scripting.

The perimeter of the cloud is different

The very nature of the cloud means that resources are shared as they are needed.
Traditional perimeter security in the cloud doesn't work in the same way. For
instance, using Amazon's Web Services you may find yourself restricted when it
comes to checking logs and deploying tools like traffic sniffers and intrusion
detection systems. Essentially, its not your perimeter so the way you used to
protect it has changed. Some terms of service even prevent you from running
vulnerability scans making it virtually impossible to perform a code review. ForPCI
compliance, this can present a major problem.

Protecting the Cloud

Even though data and applications running in the cloud are exposed to a number
of security threats, a strong push form industries such as healthcare and
ecommerce, as well as support from Google, IBM, Amazon, and other IT
powerhouses, means that solutions to these security related problems need to be
identified.

One way to protect against threats to your web applications and data is to
deploy a Web application Firewall as a software solution. No additional hardware
is required on the part of the cloud provider and in can be installed directly
in front of your web facing applications.

Known wormsRemote Command ExecutionProbesDenial of Service attacksCompromised servers

Web application Firewalls also take traditional security much further. By
performing a deep inspection of traffic on the web service layers they are able
to stop threats that intrusion detection and prevention systems often miss.

The Need to Avoid Attacks

Cyber criminals attack the most vulnerable web sites, and they attack the
biggest possible pool of victims they can. As more IT departments are forced to
scale back, cost saving initiatives like cloud computing become even more
attractive.

While cloud computing provides managed services, you are still responsible for
compliance. No provider will assume this responsibility for you simply because
they are managing your applications and data. In order to comply with
regulations like PCI DSS, HIPPA, SOX, and the many others it is essential that
security be one of the most important factors when making the decision to move
to the cloud.

Protect Your Web Applications on the Cloud With Student Shelter

What sets Student Shelter apart is that it offers comprehensive protection against
threats to web applications while being one of the easiest solutions to use.

By acting as a Security-as-a-Service solution, Student Shelter is able to provide
protection to web servers whether the admin has an extensive background in
security or just a minimal amount of knowledge on the subject. In just 10
clicks, a web administrator with no security training can have Student Shelter up
and running. Its predefined rule set offers out-of-the box protection that can
be easily managed through a browser-based interface with virtually no impact on
your web site’s performance.

The reasons Student Shelter offers such a comprehensive security solution to your
web application security hosted in the cloud are:

Strong security against known and
emerging hacking attacks – even zero-day vulnerabilities can be stopped before
they exploit your web site.

Best-of-breed predefined security rules
for instant protection.

Interface and API for managing multiple
servers with ease. This works especially well with multiple virtual servers in
the cloud.Requires no additional hardware, and
easily scales with your business. Your cloud provider is not required to do
anything. The software can be easily installed by your staff without the need
for additional support from your cloud provider.

Student Shelter 's unique security approach eliminates the need to learn the specific
threats that exist on each web application. The software that runs Student
Shelter
focuses on analyzing the request and the impact it has on the application.
Effective web application security is based on three powerful web application
security engines: Pattern Recognition, Session Protection and Signature
Knowledgebase.

In today’s inter-connected web environment, where all organizations have a cloud
presence and users access the Internet from all over the world using public and
private networks, you need on-demand web security for the cloud. Detailed,
customizable reporting provides visibility into web traffic and granular web
application and operation controls. IT administrators have actionable
intelligence to instantly create and apply new policies to all users, including
roaming workers on external networks. Blue Coat’s cloud-delivered Web Security
Service leverages our web and security partnership with 15,000 of the largest
global enterprises, including 88 of the largest companies in the world,
providing you comprehensive protection against web-based threats for all users
regardless of location.